News

It's crunching time: ICPO joins <i>climateprediction.net</i>

We are putting our computers to work even harder here at the ICPO. We created a team called (guess what?) CLIVAR and all the staff joined it to help climateprediciton.net in the experiment to try and produce a forecast of the climate in the 21st century.

APCC invites proposals to conduct an international research project (30 March 2006)

The Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Climate Center (APCC) located in Busan, Republic of Korea, invites proposals to conduct an international research project on the development of a validated multi-model ensemble seasonal and sub-seasonal prediction system. The project budget is approximately US$150Kand the proposal due-date is 30 April 2006. The project announcement can be found on the APCC website

ESSP Open Science Conference: call for contributions (05 April 2006)

The ESSP Open Science Conference, to be held in Beijing, China, on 9-12 November 2006 invites scientists, policy makers, practitioners, scholars, members of the private sector and journalists to submit online abstracts (poster or parallel session presentations) through the OSC website (www.essp.org/ESSP2006/CallPapers_index.html). Deadline is 01 May 2006.

New book on Mediterranean Climate Variability (02 May 2006)

A new book, Mediterranean Climate Variability, edited by P. Lionello, Paola Malanotte-Rizzoli and Roberta Boscolo, has just been published by Elsevier. The book provides an updated description of climate variability in the Mediterranean basin, focusing on its strong inter-annual to decadal features. It describes both local physical processes responsible for these variability - such as changes in the surface properties and land use - and global processes - such as changes in the large scale atmospheric circulation associated to global warming, NAO, tropical monsoon and ENSO.

Global Warming in a Chaotic Climate - A Simple Conceptual Model (10 May 2006)

Our climate is chaotic. As a result, the internal variations of climate are irregular and weather patterns never repeat themselves exactly. Two animations [by Tim Palmer and Rob Hine (ECMWF)] showing the familiar "Executive Decision Maker" - a metal pendulum swinging over four magnets - help to illustrate a number of climate issues which have caused conceptual difficulties from time to time.

WCRP's e-zine no. 2 (05 June 2006)

WCRP's news on climate research in e-zine No. 2 is available. Please feel free to send the newsletter to colleagues who might be interested in it.

To subscribe/unsubscribe, please send an email to wcrp@wmo.int. Contributions to e-zine N° 3 to be published in September, and feedback should also be adressed to wcrp@wmo.int.

Several meetings added to the CLIVAR calendar (04 July 2006)

The CLIVAR calendar has been updated with the addition of several meetings and workshops. The latest CLIVAR panel meetings and workshops added to the calendar are:

31 Aug - 02 Sep 2006: CLIVAR/GODAE Meeting on Ocean Synthesis Evaluation (ECMWF, Reading, UK)

US JGOFS Final Data Report available (20 July 2006)

The final 2 volumes (DVD-ROM volumes 3 and 4, SMP results) of the US JGOFS Final Data Report are available for distribution. To receive your copy, please use the data report request form at:

http://usjgofs.whoi.edu/publications/RequestDataRpt.html

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WCRP's e-zine no. 3 (05 September 2006)

WCRP's news on climate research in e-zine No. 3 is available. Please feel free to send the newsletter to colleagues who might be interested in it.

To subscribe/unsubscribe, please send an email to wcrp@wmo.int. Contributions to e-zine N° 4 and feedback should also be adressed to wcrp@wmo.int.

WCRP has a new website (05 September 2006)

WCRP has a new logo and a new website, with a new look and an easy-to-remember web address (http://wcrp.wmo.int). It provides the latest news and links to global climate research. Feedback and comments are welcome (wcrp@wmo.int).